WISN-TV expands 10 p.m. news to one hour

On the heels of all its news shows winning their time period in the November ratings sweeps, WISN-TV (Channel 12) announced plans to expand its 10 p.m. newscast to one hour. The change takes effect Jan. 24. It will be followed by "Nightline" and "Jimmy Kimmel LIve." The expanded news broadcast, anchored by Kathy Mykleby and Toya Washington, will move "Access Hollywood" to 12:30 a.m. »Read Full Blog Post

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It is cheaper to have news than to buy syndicated programming. The station is already paying the bodies to work 8 hours, may as well make them work 8 hours. Once Oprah is done, you'll see WISN with a 4 o'clock as well.

people still watch the local news? why? for over-dramatized stories or live team coverage of a melting snow bank asking "where does the water go?" I love it when they get their claws into a story and beat over people's heads until you think you can't go outside without be slapped in the face by it (swine flu, flooding, MMSD water dumps, the dreaded dirty fork at a restaurant, oil spill - the Mississippi River pours more water into the Gulf in 30 seconds as oil was leaked, hurricanes that won't come within 1500 miles of here, etc, etc, etc).No thanks, I'll watch something else....

Fox6 does 1 1/2 hours (9:00p.m. - 10:30p.m.), so we get to hear each story at least 3 times (not to mention the multiple weather and sports segments that repeat over and over).

Therefore, will WISN now just repeat the same stories, weather, and sports at least once too, or actually give us MORE news?

PLEASE... if you are going to expand, tell me something NEW, not something over and over, and then please don't repeat the same thing the next morning too. There is A LOT of news to cover.

Also, just because JSonline reported on it, does not mean it needs to be on WISN, Fox6, AND TodaysTMJ4. Find your own stories to set yourself apart from the rest (not mirror each other every day). Sometimes I feel as though the only thing different are the people reporting it.

These news people are going to have to work their butts off to stretch 10 minutes of news to 60 minutes. I'm sure the motive is to get more commercials on to make more $. Watch their ratings drop with this genius move.

This is crazy. They will just repeat the news stories from the previous night like they do now on Sundays. I used to watch WISN news all the time but I've been watching more and more of CBS 58. You get the top stories and the weather in 10 minutes and if you want to stick around for the rest you can.

Awesome, can't wait. I hope this means more time for weather because we all know how important it is to tell us the exact temperature of every community from here to Green Bay. Also more time for more stories no one cares about. I'll continute to not watch.